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Feldenkrais

The Feldenkrais Online Library

Every recorded Awareness Through Movement lesson Joanne has taught, organised by body region. Slow, gentle, and done lying down or seated — no strain, no forcing.

  • 47 recorded lessons
  • About 42 hours of teaching
  • Lying down or seated
  • No strain, no forcing
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The method

What Feldenkrais is

The Feldenkrais Method, named for its founder Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, uses slow, gentle movement to improve human function. It deepens your sense of how your body moves, and offers strategies to make movement simpler and more fluid.

Joanne completed her Feldenkrais certification in 2005, and it shapes how she teaches every Strong Bones class. Awareness Through Movement lessons are done lying down or seated, at your own pace, with no strain.

What is the Feldenkrais Method?

A form of movement education that uses slow, gentle movement to improve how you function. Rather than stretching or forcing anything, it teaches your nervous system easier, more efficient ways to move.

How is it taught?

Two ways: Awareness Through Movement, taught verbally to a group, and Functional Integration, done one-to-one. Both are built to draw on the nervous system's ability to learn, adapt and change — the neuroplasticity documented across a wide body of research, which is why nobody is too old to learn and change.

Can anyone do these lessons?

Yes. The biggest difference between Feldenkrais and other body-oriented methods is the ease with which every movement is carried out — ease is a fundamental principle of the learning.

What happens in a lesson?

Joanne guides you verbally through deceptively simple movement sequences, usually lying on a mat, sometimes seated or standing. You are asked to notice parts of your body involved in a movement that normally escape your attention. The results surprise people; the attention it asks for is unlike anything else.

In the press

Written about in the Post and the Times

The Washington Post

A different way to relieve years of back pain

Susan Rein — a first-person account of Feldenkrais lessons

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The New York Times

Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain

Jane Brody, Well — October 31, 2017

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The library

47 lessons by body region

Pick whatever your body is asking for that day. There is no order you need to follow, and every lesson stands on its own.

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The Neck and Shoulders

10
  • Snow Angel Arms56 min
  • Exploring Movement Patterns55 min
  • The “Back Door” Approach50 min
  • How Mini Moves Can Help49 min
  • Arm Clock51 min
  • Introducing Foam Rollers49 min
  • Open Book – Part I53 min
  • Open Book – Part II55 min
  • The Jaw Connection50 min
  • The Eyes Have It50 min

Relieving Back Tension

10
  • Lengthening the Spine – Part I57 min
  • Lengthening the Spine – Part II55 min
  • How Foam Rollers Can Help54 min
  • Awareness of Your Back In Sitting39 min
  • Removing the Rust53 min
  • Flexibility versus Stability – the need for both48 min
  • Freeing the Mid Back51 min
  • The Pelvic Clock45 min
  • Rolling From Side to Side51 min
  • Safe Strengthening Exercises For Your Back57 min

Happier Hips

7
  • Windshield Wiper Legs57 min
  • Frog Legs53 min
  • Improving Flexibility the Feldenkrais Way1 hr 2 min
  • Hip – Knee – Ankle Circles50 min
  • Activating the Glutes1 hr 3 min
  • Hip Hinging Magic – A Body Mechanics Primer47 min
  • Feldenkrais-style Exercises For Your Hips56 min

Healthier Knees

4
  • Exploring Strategies to Ease Stiffness58 min
  • The Influence of the Feet and Hips56 min
  • Many Roads to Lengthened Hamstrings57 min
  • Improving Strength and Flexibility in Your Knees1 hr

The Feet and Ankles

3
  • The Many Movements of Your Feet1 hr 1 min
  • Flexible Toes, Flexible Feet54 min
  • Your Feet Are Your Base of Support59 min

Elbows, Wrists, and Hands

3
  • Improving Hand and Elbow Movements55 min
  • Easing Hand Stiffness57 min
  • Holding the Elbows and Rolling Side to Side56 min

The Breath

4
  • The Rib Cage Connection57 min
  • Exploring Lung Capacity51 min
  • Using Foam Rollers to Enhance Breathing49 min
  • Using the Breath as a Restorative Practice56 min

Transitional Movements

2
  • From the Floor to Sitting57 min
  • From the Floor to Standing50 min

Miscellaneous

4
  • The Pelvic Floor53 min
  • De-stressing the Feldenkrais Way52 min
  • The Arm-Trunk Connection57 min
  • Safe Core Strengthening Exercises57 min

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From students

What the lessons feel like

“After participating in Joanne's Awareness Through Movement classes, my movements feel more fluid. I become very relaxed and more flexible. It's a wonderfully unique feeling of being physically 'free' and very connected to my body.”
Ann R., PhD
“In the most gentle, soothing and inclusive way… to feel the result of lengthened limbs and opened joints is nothing short of miraculous, and something I have not experienced anywhere else. My wife says I look like a different person when I come home from class, and I feel like one too.”
Will B.

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